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IGN are reporting that Amy, Vector Cell’s game that had previously only been confirmed for PSN, has now been spotted on the radar of other formats, including Steam. It’s a game about a zombie contagion and Amy, a little girl who is resistant to it. You play a woman intent on rescuing the titular zombie survivor, who must lead the little girl through dangerous environments. But this woman is not resistant to the infection: she is slowly turning into a zombie and have to deal with it by scavenging medical supplies or hugging Amy herself to stave off the march of zombification for a few moments. There’s a video below.

As you go through the game, you become more powerful and the enemies get tougher, but you only become more powerful by proceeding further down the zombification process. The story ends with a transcendental moment of self sacrifice.

Damn, Zoe, have you tried like moisturiser of something? I know it’s the apocalypse but standards, girl, standards.

More sensibly, nice of them to show off the awkward movement controls, indistinct environment design and immersion-breaking mid-level cutscenes in the first teaser. A customer usually can’t tell those major flaws until the reviews come out.

You’re not animalistic enough in Prototype, and the violence isn’t personal.

I want like a first person game where I’m crawling around on walls and tearing out people’s throats while they gurgle and shove their grubby little hands in my face as a desperate attempt to push me off.

I can’t properly portray the game that I am imagining in my head, but it would be one of those games that would cause people to have moral qualms about playing it.

If you want the horrible crawling, tearing out of throats, etc. you could play The Darkness. It doesn’t have the grey morals though, unless you consider mafia lifestyle grey (the Darkness Main Character has excuses for considering it white)

Looks good. Especially if they use running, evading and scrounging as chief game mechanics.
Also my first RPS post and I am loving this site. It’s quickly becoming the place where I want to be…. typing comments.

UPDATE: How do I change my profile picture? I like the silly little guy to my left but I curious as to how to replace him.

If it’s done right, an escort mission could actually be exciting and valuable. Given proper character motivation, and a companion AI that’s good enough at staying alive to feel fair to you … it could be quite compelling. And if the whole game is indeed built around the two characters surviving together, I can see it doing those things.

Will escort-lady get the little girl to safety but get shot and killed by the first survivor they find, or will the little girl cure escort-lady’s zombification through the power of love and friendship?

buy the game and tell me because i’m too lazy to finish games these days.

I still remember the glorious second level of Flashback, which was like a 2D Deus Ex. Why the whole game couldn’t have kept that up is beyond me. Anyone else remember? I’m talking about New Washington.